Poems for Kids

Poetry for children: Our large assortment of poems for children include evergreen classics as well as new poems on a variety of themes. You will find original juvenile poetry about trees, animals, parties, school, friendship and many more subjects. We have short poems, long poems, funny poems, inspirational poems, poems about environment, poems you can recite

I took a stroll down Cypress Street
The hot sidewalk beneath my feet.
The one thing that stood out the most
Where trees once stood there were lamppost.
I’d never seen so much concrete
No Cypress left on Cypress Street.
According to my Great Aunt Gem
There used to be a lot of them.
They cut them down. They took their wood
A treeless street is plum no...

The summer sun smiles a scorching smile
The smile sends shivers
through the stoutest hearts
A summer smile is reason to sweat
But the potter’s back with his cool lifeline!
Earthen pots of every size
Are piled under a tarpaulin sky
Waiting to find new homes
And soothe thirsty throats!
Their water has a magical taste -
The sweet smell of wet earth
Or soil that comes alive after
The first...

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went -
Then you may count that day well spent
But if, though all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay -
If,...

Where the mountains touch the sky
Where poets DREAM, where eagles fly
A secret place above the crowd
Just beneath a silver-lined cloud.
Lift your eyes to a snowy peak
And see the soon-to-be we seek
Whisper DREAMS and let them rise
To the mountains old and wise.
Climbers climb, it's time to try
Where the mountains touch the sky
Take me there. Oh take me now...
Someway, Someday, Somewhere,...

Todd-Michael St. Pierre writes poems, songs and plays for children. He is a storyteller at schools throughout the southern United States. Among his published works are 'Somewhere: As Told By Garrett The Parrot' and 'The Louisiana State Bird Beauty Pageant'. 'Young Poets' is part of a collection, 'A Treehouse On The Moon', to be published soon, along with other...

Children of the fragile forest gather around
Where bird song seems to be the loudest sound
A place called Summer, green as you could please
A place where we all proudly hug the trees.
Hug trees for the walnuts and sweet apples
For the shade above small country chapels
For giving squirrel and crow a place to live
For the priceless gift of oxygen they give.
Follow...

Quick, quick, quick
Lay a brick, brick, brick
Make it stick stick stick.
You know whose house it is?
Of Jumbo the kid, kid, kid
That’s why it’s so big, big, big.
Do you know what will happen IF
even one brick comes loose - and
Jumbo trips on that brick?
Jumbo will take apart every
brick, brick, brick
He’ll make it quick, quick, quick!
So, no trick, trick, trick
Let’s lay...

Twenty noisy
pigeons
Had a party
last night
The last egg
Had hatched
The youngest one
Was OUT!
They rocked on
the TV wires
looked the kitten
In the eye
They splashed
In the pool -
the kitten’s
water bowl
And then they
had a contest -
Who showers
more droppings
On the clothesline
It must have been
a good party
Many must
have won
For the clothes
were splattered
With the proof
of the fun!

Far away in the jungles
where the green grass grows,
lived families of mynas
their nest in rows.
They were friends and foes
who played and fought for fun.
But when it came to the enemy
they stood together as one.
One morning they were surprised
a strange creature there to find.
Loud, noisy with strange scary ways
a being like that...seemed a ferocious kind.
Eager to befriend the new
an excited...

Kappu maharaj sat in a tub
Splashing water left, right and above
Papa sat rubbing his legs
While Mama poured water on the head.
Together they wrapped
Their baby in a towel
One dried his hair
And the other gave him a massage.

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